Brassiere



A. E. MAAS Jan. 10, 1961 BRASSIERE Filed Sept. 10,

6! INVENTOR. A/fre fgon Maas BY dz A TTORNEY United States Patent iceBRASSIERE Alfred Egon Maas, New York, N.Y., assignor to Maiden FormBrassiere Co., Inc., New York, N.Y., a corporation of New York FiledSept. 10, 1959, Ser. No. 839,117

1 Claim. (Cl. 128-465) The object of the invention is to provide abrassiere which will enable more comfortable and satisfactory support,particularly below the breasts, and the characteristic of the inventionis to carry the breast underlying semiannular supports of wire or thelike by a panel which is independent of the cups themselves, and thuswill have floating action with respect to the cups, which panel iscarried by the back bands of the brassiere at the point where the cupcarrying panel is attached to the back band.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanyingdrawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the invention, oneof the back bands being folded rearwardly as shown in part, and theleft-hand back band being broken away;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the wire (or other arcuate stiif material)members with a carrying panel therefor;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section, fragmentary, being on the line 3-3, Fig.1;

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the cup carrying panel, over which panel ofFig. 3 is applied.

Referring to the drawings, and particularly Fig. 4, in conjunction withFig. 1, it will be seen that, independently of the panel shown in Fig.2, a complete brassiere is provided by means of the panel sections 1,the cups 2, and back bands as indicated at 3 in Fig. 1, secured to theouter margins of the panel sections 1. A single panel section forcarrying the cups may be provided,

2,967,527 Patented Jan. 10, 1961 although in the present embodiment twosections are shown, and which are connected by seaming indicated Uponthe exterior of the brassiere construction thus formed, is applied wire(or other stiff arcuate material) members to the construction shown inFigs. 2 and 3.

In the illustrated embodiment, the panel last referred to comprisesouter sections 5 joined to an intermediate section 6. Two arcuate wires,covered with fabric, are indicated at 7, and the fabric encasement forthe wires is preferably connected to panel sections 5 and 6, byfaggoting, indicated at 8.

It will be understood that the underlying brassiere structure shown inFig. 4 will have the outer wire carrying panel of Fig. 2 appliedexteriorly thereof, and said two'structures will be seamed to the backbands 3, and also the wire carrying member will be seamed, at itsbaseline, to the underlying brassiere member, by stitching, such asindicated at 9, Fig. 1. Also panel section 8 of the outermost member maybe connected to the underlying member at its peak 6x, Fig. 2.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is as follows:

A brassiere comprising two panels consisting of an inner panel and anouter panel, the inner panel being,

formed with arcuate mutually spaced margins above its base line, breastcups connected to the arcuate margins of said inner panel, back bandscarried by the inner panel, the outer panel being a unitary structurehaving upper mutually spaced arcuate margins conforming with the innerpanel, the margins of the outer panel which con form to the upperarcuate margins ofthe inner panel each carrying an arcuate stiffeningmember, and means connecting the two panels at the back bands of theinner panel, and along the base areas of the two panels, the connectionbetween the arcuate stifiening members and the outer panel beingflexible.

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